flame color

American  

noun

1. bright reddish-orange.

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Other Word Forms

• flame-colored
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of flame color

First recorded in 1600–10

Example Sentences

The rainbow flame demonstration teaches a concept central to the curriculum of high school chemistry: that certain metals, when burned, produce a flame color that is characteristic to its chemical makeup.

From Washington Post • Nov. 5, 2015

Revers at the edge of overdress and on the virago sleeves are now of flame color, a Spanish pink, but were originally scarlet, I am sure.

From Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 (1620-1820) by Earle, Alice Morse

It has large maroon blotches upon a white ground thickly spotted with maroon, with a touch of flame color on the cheeks, over the eyes, and on the legs.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 803, May 23, 1891 by Various

The word 'Brazil' appears to have been originally used to designate a bright red or flame color.

From Forty Centuries of Ink or, a chronological narrative concerning ink and its backgrounds, introducing incidental observations and deductions, parallels of time and color phenomena, bibliography, chemistry, poetical effusions, citations, anecdotes and curiosa together with some evidence respecting the evanescent character of most inks of to-day and an epitome of chemico-legal ink. by Carvalho, David Nunes

After a certain time they agreed to one thing: her dress should be flame color.

From The Argonauts by Curtin, Jeremiah